, michael here as well joining us, going to be speaking on "the new new deal: hidden story of change in the obama administration,ed" leadoff speaker is "bailout: how washington abandoned main street while rescuing wall street," give a big round of applause, and cbs 4 has been here for years, and great to have these guys joining us today. take it away, thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you so much, and thank you, everyone, for coming out, and thank you for my co-panelists, an unbelievable thrill that's hard to put into words. here we are after days after the most recent presidential election, and it's hard to believe that it was really four years ago as we were -- at least i was celebrating the first lexes of then senator barack obama as president of the united states of america, and, you know, as a country, it was a remarkable time. it was a different election. in the midst of a financial crisis, a crisis -- i forgot my clock, otherwise i would go on for 45 minutes. [laughter] a financial crisis that really started here in the united states, but brought almost the entire global
